My funny Valentines

For as long as I've celebrated Valentine's Day, I have celebrated a day late. My husband had the good sense to be born on Valentine's Day, and since I have a moral opposition to sharing holidays, we have, since 1999, celebrated Hallmark's greatest of holidays on the 15th.

But since Dunkin' Donuts doesn't know about my family's special circumstance, we caved in this year and decided the kids could celebrate Valentine's Day with the rest of the world. So Rebecca and I dragged the kiddos out for heart-shaped donuts and then let them burn off the sugar with a glorious morning enjoying the sunshiney goodness of the park. It was refreshing to be outside again after months of hibernation through the long, cold winter. They climbed, they ran, they bounced, they rolled, and they played more than a few clumsy rounds of Ring Around the Rosy. By the time we returned home, they were filthy and exhausted. That makes this warm-weather-lovin' mommy very, very happy.